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Line 2: [[File:stepfather-702568.jpg\|frame\|You're [[Lost\|John Locke]], don't you remember?]] ''~~'''~~[[The Stepfather~~'''~~]]'' is a 1987 thriller film, written by esteemed crime novelist Donald E. Westlake and directed by Joseph Ruben. The film tells the story of [[I Have Many Names\|an]] [[No Name Given\|unnamed]] [[The Bluebeard\|bluebeard]] [[Serial Killer]] obsessed with being a part of the perfect family, to such an extent that if his current family doesn't live up to expectations, he kills them and moves onto another.▼ ▲'''''The Stepfather''''' is a 1987 thriller film, written by esteemed crime novelist Donald E. Westlake and directed by Joseph Ruben. The film tells the story of [[I Have Many Names\|an]] [[No Name Given\|unnamed]] [[The Bluebeard\|bluebeard]] [[Serial Killer]] obsessed with being a part of the perfect family, to such an extent that if his current family doesn't live up to expectations, he kills them and moves onto another. The film was followed by two sequels, the first [[Direct to Video\|direct-to-video]] and the second [[Made for TV Movie\|made for tv]] (that doesn't inspire much confidence, does it?). [[The Remake\|A remake]] was released in 2009. {{franchisetropes}} ~~----~~ ~~=== This film series provides examples of the following tropes: ===~~ * [[Affably Evil]]: Despite murdering women and children, the stepfather. * [[An Axe to Grind]]: The stepfather comes close to killing his current family with one in ''Stepfather III'', but relents at the last minute. Line 70 ⟶ 67: * [[The Un-Reveal]]: Four films and the stepfather still doesn't have an origin... or even a real name. ** Doctor Danvers calls him "Bill Krieger" in the second film, though they don't actually outright state if that's his real name, or an old alias. The stepfather also apparently tells Danvers about his past... offscreen... he also could've been lying. * [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Susan in the remake cannot take a hint that her fiance is a murderer to save her life. Neighbor claiming she saw his face on ''[[~~Americas~~America's Most Wanted]]''? Susan passes it off as someone else. Ex-husband saying that Susan's youngest son was ''throttled'' by her fiance? She does not bring it up again. <ref> [[Truth in Television\|To be fair, it can be hard to believe your ex-husband when he tells you your new beau is a psycho.]]</ref> Her sister telling Susan that her fiance left as soon as he had to fill out some employment forms, Susan ''laughs'' it off. You know you have a dumb as shit character when she does not get the message when her fiance is pointing a knife at her, along with a whole bunch of weapons laid out on the table, saying that she should punish her son more, then ask, "[[Arc Words\|Who Am I here?]]". [[What an Idiot!\|Mother of the year.]] * [[Unexplained Recovery]]: The stepfather obviously dies at the end of the first film, but shows up with only a large scar where he got stabbed in the sequel. Likewise, ''Stepfather II'' ends with him getting a claw hammer in the chest, which he also somehow survives. * [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: The inspiration for the series was mass murderer John Emil List, who killed his entire family, fled to Virginia, assumed another identity, remarried and wasn't caught for eighteen years. Line 81 ⟶ 78: [[Category:Films of the 1980s]] [[Category:Films of the 2000s]] [[Category:~~One~~The ~~Hundred~~100 Scariest Movie Moments]] [[Category:The Stepfather]] [[Category:Film]] [[Category:Cult Classic]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Stepfather, The}}